When I did some research into what Pre-Raphaelite paintings I might be able to find in Oxford, one jumped out as a “must see”. It’s a piece I’ve admired from high school, and I’ve never seen the original (because it’s hiding in a chapel in Oxford!). The painting is called “The Light of the World”, […]
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This is the first post of several about a trip I recently made to Oxford, England. For some reason I’d never visited Oxford before, despite the fact that my mum and dad, and one of my uncles, studied there (my mum studied fine art). I had to make a trip back to the UK this
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Before I moved to Canada, I hadn’t really heard of the Group of Seven. Come to think of it, I’m not really sure where I did first hear about them, but whenever it was, I became a fan of Tom Thomson’s work. While my own work is very detailed and strives to be as realistic
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Have you bought anything in the Black Friday sales? Usually my husband and I get excited and optimistic about being able to buy a few things we’ve been wanting to get, only to discover nothing we’re looking for is actually on sale. Similar things happened this year when it came to “in person” shopping, but
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